A Tainan-area man who married his girlfriend a dozen years ago recently discovered that three out of their five daughters weren’t his biological children. The man became suspicious after his ex-wife became pregnant even though they were no longer intimate.
Our viewers outside of Taiwan might not understand the reference to green hats in the animation. In Chinese, to say that someone is “wearing a green hat” means calling him a cuckold. This is derived from an old Yuan dynasty custom where prostitutes’ families are punished by being made to wear green head scarves in public. The scarves became hats, and the term “wearer of green hats” now describes men whose wives have strayed.
